Did Jerry pull the plug on his own forums?

[yimyammer]

He's an oil guy. What he does with the team is akin to someone insisting on drilling in the same dried up well/area over and over and over again, expecting the gusher to come at anytime despite oil experts telling him there's none there to find.

IIRC, in a book I read about jeri this is exactly how he made his fortune. He was told to abandon ship on some wells but went against everyones advice and then hit a gusher making him the fortune that ultimately allowed him to buy the team. You can tell this mentality drives him to this day and has made him arrogantly defiant because in the back of his mind, he can always tell himself that if he had listened to the "experts", he would never be where his is today.

He's uber optimistic and positive which are actually wonderful qualities in most areas of life but when it comes to building a winner in the NFL under the constraints of the salary cap and free agency, its a death sentence

 

[yimyammer]

Superstar with his smug, presumed superiority over most fans, failing to realize most fans have already thought of all of the stupid infantile shit he is posting in such a clumsy verbose way. Because his strategy is to ignore other posts, but reply with the most dense gobbledygook possible. He cannot dazzle with brilliance, so he tries to baffle with bullshit.

Meanwhile he wants to argue that Jerry couldn't be responsible for any of the details over the last 22 years, but believes big-time executive Jerry personally made the decision to shut down something as insignificant as a pissant message board?

Gotta love the moronic irony. He wants to have it both ways, which is typical for imbeciles. Jerry himself pulls the same shit. His old lady never had to log onto his account to bail him out though.

 

[Doomsday]

IIRC, in a book I read about jeri this is exactly how he made his fortune. He was told to abandon ship on some wells but went against everyones advice and then hit a gusher making him the fortune that ultimately allowed him to buy the team. You can tell this mentality drives him to this day and has made him arrogantly defiant because in the back of his mind, he can always tell himself that if he has listened to the "experts" he would never be where his is today.

He's uber optimistic and positive which are actually wonderful qualities in most areas of life but when it comes to building a winner in the NFL under the constraints of the salary cap and free agency, its a death sentence

Actually he cobbled together a combination of loans, his daddy's money and his entire portfolio and credit line to buy the team. To the point his credit card was rejected at Mia's and Jimmy had to get the check for their meals.

The stuff about him hitting a gusher is just "legacy fiction" from that self-serving ghost-written "Play to Win" book that keeps getting repeated.

 

[yimyammer]

Actually he cobbled together a combination of loans, his daddy's money and his entire portfolio and credit line to buy the team. To the point his credit card was rejected at Mia's and Jimmy had to get the check for their meals.

The stuff about him hitting a gusher is just "legacy fiction" that keeps getting repeated.

He definitely made a lot of money from oil & gas:

Jones eventually shifted his business focus to oil and gas, starting as an independent operator by leasing land from major oil companies in the Red Fork sand northwest of Oklahoma City and drilling between existing wells in fields no longer being explored. His first well yielded more than $4 million in oil, and in less than ten years, Jones made $50 million from the Red Fork fields. Life was good. But he wasn’t satisfied. “I’ve never gone to sleep a night yet without wanting something more to drink,” Jones liked to say, explaining his unquenchable thirst for the next deal.

And the deals got bigger. A play in southeast Oklahoma brought $40 million in revenue. Gas plays in the San Joaquin Valley of central California brought in another $40 million. By the end of the eighties, Jones was worth hundreds of millions of dollars, though just how many hundreds is a point of some conjecture.

he almost went broke investing in Shakeys pizza franchises and Tyson chicken:

Following in his father’s footsteps, he took on as much debt as he could, borrowing $50,000 from his father-in-law to invest in Shakey’s Pizza Parlor franchises around Springfield and buy into Tyson Foods of Springdale, Arkansas. He was so overextended that he almost went broke before his calculated bets began to pay off.

Shakeys failed, Tyson Chicken was a winner

While he leveraged part of the purchase of the team, it was a relatively small part which he ultimately paid off so that he had 100% ownership. Point being, he brought plenty of his own money to the table when the purchase was made.

To clarify & correct the dry hole story I didn't convey completely accurately:

What actually happened is jeri invested in an area called the Red Forks Sands which "it had been proven over and over that it was far easier to turn up dust at the Red Fork Sand than it was to find a trickle of oil"

Despite "at the time, Jerry wouldn't have known the Red Fork if it had bit him on the nose" he loved this venture because it was high risk, high reward so he "scraped together most of the necessary $200,000 on his own".

"In all, they hit oil on the first 15 wells they drilled"

This more accurately reflects what occurred. The quotes are taken from the book King of The Cowboys: The Life & Times of Jerry Jones by Jim Dent:

 

[Doomsday]

He definitely made a lot of money from oil & gas:



he almost went broke investing in Shakeys pizza franchises and Tyson chicken:



Shakeys failed, Tyson Chicken was a winner

While he leveraged part of the purchase of the team, it was a relatively small part which he ultimately paid off so that he had 100% ownership. Point being, he brought plenty of his own money to the table when the purchase was made.

Excellent research, clearly he wasn't a loser in land oil and gas, but no doubt he WAS virtually broke from buying the team. It took everything he had and could borrow or leverage but he made his dream come true that's for sure.

Multi-billionaire now.

 

[yimyammer]

To the point his credit card was rejected at Mia's and Jimmy had to get the check for their meals.

You're conflating two different stories.

Jerry and Jimmy did eat at Mias but by that time jerry could certainly pay a measly restaurant bill considering he had just bought the cowboys. Jerrys credit card was cut up when he was trying to rent a car at Love Field Airport in his 20's. From the same book:

Photographer J. Mark Kegans was a 24-year-old intern with The Dallas Morning News when he got the assignment of a lifetime. On the evening of Feb. 24, 1989, Kegans was sitting in the third-floor photo lab waiting for his shift to end when his boss told him to drive to a nearby Tex-Mex restaurant and photograph little-known oil man Jerry Jones and Miami Hurricanes coach Jimmy Johnson.

As Kegans bolted out the door, his photo editor said cryptically, "Your life depends on this."

As Kegans drove down Lemmon Avenue, it occurred to him that he didn't know what either man looked like. He walked in the door with his camera and a host smiled and nodded his head toward the room in which Jones and Johnson were seated. Jones would purchase the team the next day and name Johnson coach, replacing Tom Landry.

Former News staffer Ivan Maisel, who had spotted Jones and Johnson while eating at Mia's, pointed Kegans in the right direction. Kegans walked up to the table and said, "I've got to take a picture of you, so just keep talking."

THE BIG PICTURE: Jerry Jones (right) and Jimmy Johnson dine in a Dallas restaurant the day before Jones purchased the Cowboys. This photo, taken by Dallas Morning News intern J. Mark Kegans, was the lead picture on the front page of The Dallas Morning News on Feb. 25, 1989.
After five clicks, Johnson said, "I think that's enough."

"I'd never seen the guy," Kegans said of Johnson. "But he had this natural authority."
Back at the office, Kegans fed his film into a machine while the same reassuring photo editor said, "You better pray there is something there."

Fortunately for Kegans, the picture turned out well and was added as the lead photograph on the front page of the Feb. 25 Dallas Morning News. According to Kegans, the same picture has shown up in Sports Illustrated at least three times.

"It was like getting a picture of Big Foot and the Abominable Snowman," said Kegans, who eventually became a full-time staff photographer and is now a freelancer in Des Moines, Iowa. "I don't guess I'll ever top that."

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[Doomsday]

You're conflating two different stories.

Jerry and Jimmy did eat at Mias but by that time jerry could certainly pay a measly restaurant bill considering he had just bought the cowboys. Jerrys credit card was cut up when he was trying to rent a car at Love Field Airport in his 20's. From the same book:

And now the sumbitch is personally shutting down irrelevant pissant message boards!

 

[yimyammer]

And now the sumbitch is personally shutting down irrelevant pissant message boards!

 

[English Cowboy]

Here's a news report from the day of Jerry's acquisition of the Cowboys, including the "jocks and socks" quote.

https://youtu.be/5_vJao8XIP4

Landry had to be moved on but it's still sad watching him clearing out his office.

 

[Haleyrules]

Here's a news report from the day of Jerry's acquisition of the Cowboys, including the "jocks and socks" quote.

February 25, 1989: Jerry Jones buys the Cowboys - YouTube

Landry had to be moved on but it's still sad watching him clearing out his office.

Fuck me!!

 

[Haleyrules]

He is the worst thing that ever happened to old Cowboy fans.

 

[theoneandonly]

He is the worst thing that ever happened to old Cowboy fans.

Oddly enough winning 3 SBs in 7 years was the worst thing to happen for Jerry. Made him think he knew what he was doing and resulted in a 22 year hang over for us.

 

[Haleyrules]

Oddly enough winning 3 SBs in 7 years was the worst thing to happen for Jerry. Made him think he knew what he was doing and resulted in a 22 year hang over for us.

Yep. It sowed the seeds of insanity of what ole Jerry became. He still can not let go of his madness of being more important than the HC ( Tom Landry) That is where the sickness began. (Tom Landry)

 

[yimyammer]

Here's a news report from the day of Jerry's acquisition of the Cowboys, including the "jocks and socks" quote.

February 25, 1989: Jerry Jones buys the Cowboys - YouTube

Landry had to be moved on but it's still sad watching him clearing out his office.

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[Bay10]

He is the worst thing that ever happened to old Cowboy fans.

I wish some old recordings of him saying some controversial stuff would surface. Like what happenned with Donald Sterling and the league forced Skelator to sell. That is sadly our only hope it seems.

 

[SixisBetter]

That is sadly our only hope it seems.

I'm hoping for a drone strike.

 

[yimyammer]

I wish some old recordings of him saying some controversial stuff would surface.

its amazing he's managed to dodge that bullet so far, especially considering how much he loves to run his mouth and get liquored up

that is the dream though, come on somebody, do the right thing!

 

[Haleyrules]

I wish some old recordings of him saying some controversial stuff would surface. Like what happenned with Donald Sterling and the league forced Skelator to sell. That is sadly our only hope it seems.

I wish Garrett would publish those pictures he has of ole Jerry boy porkin a billy goat!!

 

[PA Cowboy Fan]

I wish Garrett would publish those pictures he has of ole Jerry boy porkin a billy goat!!

That's the only explanation we have for the clapper remaining. lol

 

[Bay10]

its amazing he's managed to dodge that bullet so far, especially considering how much he loves to run his mouth and get liquored up

that is the dream though, come on somebody, do the right thing!

You just know he has done alot of shady shit. He must have one hell of a pay roll to cover his tracks.